Shilpa Ray grew up in a traditional Indian household in New Jersey. Her parents forbade the guitar and tried to steer her away from Western music by schooling her in typical Indian instruments. The result: maybe the first ever harmonium-driven punk-blues band. Ray and her Happy Hookers swept into Austin on rock grooves that would be pretty irresistible on their own, but paired with her urgent, often shrieky vocals, the music was mesmerizing. Her first show of SXSW week was her best, a packed Barbarella club off Sixth Street pulsing and swaying as she did. Her parents might not want to know how her musical education turned out. “They do not know,” she confided to one interviewer, “and you will not tell them. Shhh.”

The Kurt Vile you meet on CD might not be the same Kurt Vile you’ll hear in concert. Not that that’s a bad thing. The Dr. Kurt Jekyll makes often summery electronic folk music that echoes Seger, Springsteen and Petty. The Mr. Kurt Hyde sets his guitars to stun and can cloud the melodies you grew to love in hot mist. But the drone has its charms and Vile added to his already long list of fans at several shows in Austin, including the Rhapsody afternoon party at a sweaty, elbow-to-elbow Club Deville. The supporting Violators add even more guitars. Get to know both Kurt Viles.